Improvement in hop-drier



c f Q e @that WILLIAM LOOFBOUROW, OF FAYETTE, WISCONSIN.

v Laws Pawn No. 88,395, @ma Match 3o, 1869.

IMPRovEMENT IN Hop-Damn.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent-I and mak-Ing part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM Loornounow, of Fayette, in the county ot La Fayette, and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and improved Hop-House; andI do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will 4enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a perspective view, partly in section, of my improved hop-house.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of one of the carriages used therein.

Sinilar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

rlhis invention relates to a new building for drying and storing hops, it being so arranged that the hops therein can be easily handled, and conveniently conveyed in the buildingv from the cooling to the drying, and thence to the storing-room.

rllhe invention consists- First, iu a peculiar arrangement of the building, and

Second, of a new kind of carriage for conveying -the hops within the building.

A, in the drawing, represents a building made of suitable sizeand material. In it is arranged a vertical partition, B, by which the house is divided into two rooms, of which the smaller one, C, is the kiln, and

- the larger one, the cooling and storing-department.

In the larger room is arrangeda horizontal door, D; by which itis subdivided into an upper, orcooling-chamber, E, and into a lower, or store-room, F.

FIu the partition B are openings a a, which can be i closed by means of sliding gates b b, as shown.

c o are rails, arranged in the cooling-room, andextending into the drying-room C.

On these rails are supported movable carriages G G, which, when they are filled with hops in the coolingroom, are covered with perforated covers, and are then, through the openings a, conveyed into the drying-room, after which' the gates b are closed.

The carriages-have perforated bottoms, so that the heat from a suitable furnace can readily pass through the same, and dry the hops. iiciently dry, the doors b are opened, andthe carriages withdrawn into the cooling-room. Then one side, or a side and end-board of each carriage are swung down, they being hinged, as in iig. 2, off, through a trap-door, d, into the store-room F.

The carriages may be connected by ropes or chains that pass over pulleys, and should be so arranged that while one or one set is in the dryingroom,'the other is being filled in the cooling-room, and mice versa.

Having thus describedQ my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patentl. The herein-describedalrangement of a hop-house, having the cooling, drying', and store-rooms, and provided with openings a and gates b, in one and with movable carriages G G, scribed, all operating as specified.

2. Providing the carriages G with perforated bottoms, and with one or more folding sides or ends, as

set forth.

WM. LOOFBOUROW.

substantially as dc- Witnesses:

I. H. Boomer, T. H. JOHNSON.

When the hops are sufand the hops are swept partition, 

